# Introduction An LLM engineer is not the same thing as a general machine learning engineer. Where a machine learning engineer might spend months training a neural network from scratch, an LLM engineer’s work centers on adapting, orchestrating, and serving pretrained large language models (LLMs). The job is to take a capable foundation model and …
Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 12B, our latest model designed to bring agentic multimodal intelligence directly to laptops. Bridging the gap between our edge-friendly E4B and our more advanced 26B Mixture of Experts (MoE), Gemma 4 12B packages powerful capabilities inside a reduced memory footprint. It is also our first mid-sized model to feature …
I was asked to do something new at work: Given a data dump of unstructured text data, give us a detailed PDF report of insights about what customers are saying about our products this quarter. So I wrote a clear prompt. Gave Claude a detailed set of instructions. Fed it the dataset. It gave me …
# Introduction Agentic coding sessions are expensive. A single Claude Code session — reading files, writing code, running tests, iterating — can burn 10–50x more tokens than a plain chat conversation. At scale, that adds up fast. Add rate limits that can interrupt a long-running workflow mid-session, and the dependency on a third-party API …
Why diffusion for text? While the AI research community has explored diffusion-based text generation for years, applying it to large models has remained a challenge. DiffusionGemma changes this by shifting how models use hardware. The trade-off with traditional models Most language models act like a typewriter, generating one token at a time from left to …
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# Introduction Visualize this: a multi-agent workflow that reads files, writes patches, runs tests, and iterates across four services, making 400 API calls in a single afternoon. The notification arrives. You have crossed the soft limit again. Every token costs money, every prompt sends your proprietary code to a third-party server, and the rate limits …
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Twenty years ago, translation at Google began as one of our pioneering machine learning experiments to turn the science of language into the magic of human connection. That experiment has come a long way with over a trillion words being translated for billions of users across our products every month. Today, we’re taking our next …
With FIFA set to kick off on Thursday, June 11, 2026, the opening match at the Mexico City Stadium, I think it would be fun to build the best ML model we can to predict match outcomes. To do this, I have brought together several databases—49,000 matches—with data on Elo ratings, match results, and cup …
# Introduction A model that says it is 90% confident should be right 90% of the time. When that relationship breaks down, you get a miscalibration problem. The model’s scores stop telling you anything useful about reliability. For large language models (LLMs), miscalibration is widespread. A 2024 NAACL survey found that confidence scores diverge from …
